Mountain Lion’s hidden wallpapers

If you’ve been enjoying Mountain Lion’s beautiful new Screensaver images, like National Geographic, Aerial and Cosmos, you might like to have some of those images as wallpapers for your Desktops in Mission Control.

Select the four folders inside and then press ‘command’ and ‘c’ on the keyboard. Navigate to your Pictures folder from any Finder window’s sidebar and press ‘command’ and ‘v’ to copy the folders and images.

You can now add them to your collection of available Desktop pictures by clicking the Desktop tab in

 > System Preferences… > Desktop & Screensaver

and clicking the plus ‘+’ button in the box underneath the list of folders on the left. From the window that pops up, choose ‘Pictures > National Geographic-1’and hit ‘Choose’.

Repeat for any of the others (Aerial, Cosmos, Nature Patterns) that you want to add. :)

If they’re not included in the Screensaver.framework folder then you can’t install them unless you have (or know someone with) a Mountain Lion installation. Then you could copy them from that machine to your Lion machine.

Sorry…..Your directions on how to get hidden screen savers for Lion 10.8.2, iMac, didn’t work for me. I tried several times with no success. Directions were followed step by step. Lion is in perfect working condition too.

That’s true, but then you risk the chance that they get removed by an update or upgrade in the future. Moreover, by copying them into a User’s account it means that that user can still have access to them even if that account does not have Admin user privileges.

I have no idea how to get there? Ive had my Macbook Pro for a year now but I am not sure how you got there? Any suggestions? I dont even know where to go once i open up finder? Help, I really want these wallpapers!